Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
Granted England stumbled into a couple of once in a generation talents like Strauss and Cook but **** me the Aussies just went to water for a long time.
15 years ago Graham Swann would have been the laughing stock of world cricket and belted out of the attack at every opportunity, the bloke chucks dead set pies.
Nowadays the Aussie kids believe the hype and are shit scared of him before they walk out.

We've turned into a team of Daryl Cullinans.
There's not been a better off spinner* in the last 15 years than Swann. He would stroll in to any test teams first XI right now, and would have strolled into any other side, bar an Aus XI with Warne involved, over the past 15 years, probably longer.


*Murali doesn't bowl, he throws.